Decided to make a thread like this one again.
Except it is probably going to be more like "thoughts" and stuff.
And this might contain "misinterpretations".
I'm also going to look at the translated version of the lyrics, so there might be some thing that got lost in translations.
This is probably going to feel like classes in school, where you have to analyse poems and stuff.
But this thread is kind of just for fun. (I'm doing it because I want to, and wasn't told by anyone to do this analysis)
Wake up
Wake up, world
The album starts with ATEEZ trying to wake up the world.
Then we get to this:
Lies, control, rules
Numb, hatred, emptiness
Selfishness, lies, surveillance
Control, repression, rules
Numb, emptiness, contradict
Selfishness, betray
Surveillance, cruelty
Some words to describe the world that ATEEZ are living in and want to change.
The "Are you seeing this? Eyes in the skies" makes me think of Big Brother.
Or at least, when you are being watched.
If you look at the album cover, you actually see the PROPAGANDA lyrics on it.
The rest of PROPAGANDA is "woah-oh", which I don't think means anything deep lol
I have listened to this song a lot without thinking much about the lyrics, except the English ones.
The song starts with:
The red light is exploding
Spreading over the gray city
That part reminds me of "Take Me Home"
In that song, it has the parts: "Getting out of the gray city Following the light To that place in our memory" and "Under the red sun I stand Let's hold hands till the sun falls down"
Even though I'm not sure if "red sun" can be compared to "red light"
But at least they are talking about a gray city.
The "city" in the music video of Guerrilla might be the grey city.
The grey city makes em think of the world that the book The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in. (but it feels like a long time ago since I read that book)
I want to know
What is love?
What it feels like?
That line seems a bit cliché.
It seems kind of like a line that you would hear in a typical love song.
But I feel like this isn't about romantic love (or not only that kind of love)
What is the truth? I wanna know
Let's go into the sector one
I interpreted this as them trying to find out the truth by going to sector 1. (I admit that I don't know what sector 1 is)
Let's go, everyone wake up
Again with the "wake up", which we also heard in PROPAGANDA.
Make it rain, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Makes me think of the part of the Rhythm Ta performance on Kingdom, where it was raining paper.
In the Guerrilla music video, there is also raining paper.
In the last chorus, the lyrics go from:
Let's go, to the streets of the abyss
Let's go, to the twisted truth
Let's go, everyone wake up
To this:
Let's go, everyone go here
Let's go, all true
Let's go, everything is burning up
In the city where darkness falls
The lights are dancing a dance of chaos
Again, we see city and lights mentioned in the beginning of a song.
The city is probably the "grey city"
I'm not sure what more to say about this song, so I'll look at what one wiki has to say about it.
"The boys who started to slowly open their blindfolded eyes met people who were paralyzed. It is an EDM genre song that expresses the confused emotions and DYSTOPIA in the feeling that something is wrong."
Reminds me of how in the The Giver, the world seems like a Utopia but actually... it isn't...
The title track of the album.
Turn the board over this game
Makes me think of the part of Sector 1 that says: "Are you ready for the game?"
Boring, boring, sick and tired again
Makes me think of the line "I'm sick and tired of it" from THANXX.
But this is them being sick and tired from something else.
disappearing emotion
expression is losing the light
laughter is controlled
Only numbness left, no, oh
Makes me think of the part of the Rhythm Ta performance where you hear "Human decease is emotion" (or what on earth they were saying)
Shoot the flashing light
is that why Sector 1 talked about a red light exploding?
Also, that part makes me think of part of Hala Hala "Deep in my heart, deep in my soul A flashing light that has rekindled"
but I feel like it might be more about the red light than the flashing light deep down their heart and soul.
Dance, Break that wall, with our feel
Well... in the beginning of the Rhythm Ta performance, you see that dancing is prohibited.
Wake up the world, we are, woah
Again we see them mentioning waking up the world.
Music is the weapon, Hooligan (Hooligan)
Music is also prohibited.
and they are using not just music, but also dancing and art as a weapon.
Living with the eyes of emotion closed
I have noticed in the choreography of that part, it has some of the members covering their eyes.
And as it was said before, "Human decease is emotion"
With both ears covered, with both eyes covered
Like a duplicated doll, can’t live like that
Everyone raise your heads, face to face
Look at the grayish world, ooh
This time they are also talking about ears being covered.
And they are telling people to look at the grayish world and see how dystopic it is.
No, it has nothing to do with the Japanese horror movie.
Shout louder! Shout out loud!
We got power, make a wave
Change the world
We got the power, make it rain
Again, we see "make it rain" and "make a wave".
One ring to rule them all
One ring to bring them all
An obvious reference to Lord of the Rings, where there is this written on the One Ring: "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
White flames spread
A paradise where only ashes remain (Just leave me alone)
In a world about to explode
I'm losing me more and more
Well... the song seems like it is about a world that has gotten worse, and they feel affected by it and don't know where to go.
Hello world, can't you see?
The wave of light
Wake up world, how do you feel?
When you open your eyes and face the truth
Only then can the world change
Open up your eyes, open up your eyes
Again we see "opening your eyes" like we saw in some other songs.
It seems like they changed the world and that it now has become a new world.
BTW interestingly, ATEEZ was orignally going to be called "New World"
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Done analyzing the lyrics of this album.
Well... I wonder how EP2 is going to be.
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Tagging xx-jenn-xx because she is my friend and might like this thread.
and Pearl-Iris because that user hearted and commented on the other thread, where I did an analysis of a different ATEEZ album.
Not sure if this is a thread that needs all ATINY tagged.
I used hours making this thread, so it would be awkward if this flopped.
